What I learnt about culturing [with Cream Cheese recipe]

Today, I finally got to the part where I can eat plants. Hurray! I spent the last week looking at cultured food and I had quite a lot of fun with it. I have a mild fascination with preserving foods - fermentation, culturing, salting and curing (as well as dehydrating and smoking). I was excited …

What I learnt about fat

This first phase was definitely a challenge for me personally. I'm sure that other people would love to eat all the bacon they could ever want, but I am unfortunately just not one of those people. Besides it being really expensive (especially for good quality local meat), I did also get pretty tired of it, …

Honoring the food of my readers: Singaporean Hainanese White Bean Rice

When my friend from school went off to university at Oxford, some of her roommates were from South East Asia. I remember one in particular from Singapore who loved to cook for everyone. In spite of a history of colonialism and foreign occupation, Singapore thrives culturally, economically, educationally, and in terms of overall quality of …

Pacific Northwest Love and Ale Pie

Now this one is going to be a bit of a stretch for the average American family, but I implore you to try it. Britain is known for its meat pies, and we are also frugal people who eat offal or 'variety meat'. Steak and kidney pie is one such example where the two converge. …

Pacific Northwest Ploughman’s Lunch

This was a meal reinvented after the second world war by the big people in British cheese as a way to encourage consumption of their dairy products after rationing had ceased. Bread and cheese based meals had always been popular in the UK for long before the guises of the "Ploughman's lunch". I remember whenever …

​Oak Meadows Farm

Even though we were a little disappointed that they had stopped active production of quail eggs, that is where the disappointment ended on our visit to the farm. We drove past it at first because we weren't sure if it was a home or a farm. Turns out, it must be both. David Whittaker came …

​Coronation chicken

This type of chicken salad is a great one for picnics and potlucks. It makes a great sandwich filling, or it is also delicious by itself. It was, without a doubt, an adaptation of a dish developed for King George V's silver jubilee. It was originally named Poulet Reine Elizabeth, but came to be known …